Chandigarh, Feb. 21 -- Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Friday formally suggested the inclusion of the state's border blocks under NITI Aayog's Aspirational Districts and Aspirational Blocks Programmes. Presiding over the "Sampooranta Abhiyaan Samman Samaroh" at Lok Bhawan here, organised to recognise the outstanding achievements of districts and blocks under the programmes, Kataria said the government can leverage targeted transformation and convergence-based action to fill the void left by previous funding structures by integrating these border area blocks into the aspirational framework. In his keynote address, Rohit Kumar, Union additional secretary and mission director of Aspirational Districts and Aspirational Blocks Programmes at NITI Aayog said within a short span, numerous districts and blocks across the country have set new benchmarks. Punjab's additional chief secretary, planning, Jaspreet Talwar mentioned that this programme covered two aspirational districts, Ferozepur and Moga, and 10 blocks across seven districts....